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Purim, lotteries, the casting and drawing of units in a not-so-random game of chance. From “day to day, and from month to month” until the 13th of Adar was set and...

On Wednesday March 9th, 2011, an unprecedented video conference was convened at the Sderot City Hall. Municipality representatives and residents from Sderot and Asheklon were on one side of the screen,...

This past week, I attended, along with OU Chairman of the Board Stephen J. Savitsky and IPA Director Nathan Diament, the Israel Leadership Mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major...

As my son’s third yartzeit approaches, I can hardly believe it has been three years already. It seems like just yesterday I would wait in anticipation for him to arrive home...

Thirty-three years after the collapse of Nazi Germany, Jews were alive and well in America. I was fresh out of college at the time, facing a rotten US economy and having...

With an inescapable pain in her heart, she, bereft of children, chooses to embrace the here-and-now.

I’ve always been curious about the many stories related to fellow Jews who embarked on a journey called Taglit-Birthright. A free trip to Israel; it sounds nice, but could it really...

OU ESTABLISHES EMERGENCY FOREST FIRE CAMPAIGN AS BLAZE DESTROYS MUCH OF NORTHERN ISRAEL AND TAKES MANY LIVES The Orthodox Union Thursday announced an Emergency Forest Fire Campaign with 100 percent of...

In case you missed it, the UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently declared that Rachel’s Tomb is a Palestinian cultural site which is “endangered as a result of Israeli...

Did you hear about the latest two for one? The UN decided to define BOTH the Cave of the Patriarchs AND Rachel’s Tomb as Palestinian. Israel’s Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu called...